OticonNext Virtual Launch Event Company’s Biggest Ever for New Product
SOMERSET, NEW JERSEY – More than 5,000 hearing care professionals registered to join Oticon for the 2021 OticonNext “Discover More” Conference, the company’s biggest ever launch event for a new product. The live virtual knowledge-sharing experience introduced participants to Oticon More™, the world’s first hearing aid with an on-board deep neural network. Oticon President Gary Rosenblum…
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Oticon Inc. Launches More™: First Hearing Aid with an On-Board Deep Neural Network
SOMERSET, NEW JERSEY – Oticon, Inc. today launched Oticon More™, a “revolutionary new hearing aid that builds on the company’s proven BrainHearing™ approach to provide the brain optimum input for better speech understanding with less effort”. Oticon’s newest technology is said to work more like the brain works, because it learned through experience. Oticon More…
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New Research Aims to Address Low Uptake of Hearing Aids Among Adults with Hearing Loss
MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM — New research being led by the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and University of Manchester, aimed at increasing adult hearing aid use, “could make a dramatic change to people with hearing loss”. The study ‘Follow-up and structured monitoring for adults offered an NHS hearing aid for the first time (FAMOUS):…
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Hearing Aid Ownership Rates Reflect Disparities in American Healthcare
The United States is home to stark and persistent disparities in health coverage, chronic health conditions, mental health, and mortality. Many believe these disparities are the result of decades of systematic inequality in American economic, housing, and health care systems. During the 2020 pandemic, these gaps in health have become even more jarring. It is…
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Researchers Develop Technology Using Brainwaves to Determine Who You’re Listening to Within One Second
In a noisy room with many speakers, hearing aids can suppress background noise, but they have difficulties isolating one voice – that of the person you’re talking to at a party, for instance. KU Leuven researchers have now addressed that issue with a technique that uses brainwaves to determine within one second whom you’re listening…
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ReSound Looking for Hearing Care Professionals to Help with $1 Million Hearing Aid Donation
BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA – ReSound, a global leader in hearing aid innovation, has announced the launch of the ReSound Gives Sound community campaign, a new nationwide effort to donate up to $1 million worth of ReSound ONE hearing aids to people living with hearing loss who have been negatively affected by the numerous challenges of 2020.…
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New Olive Pro Blurs Line Between Hearing Aids and Wireless Earbuds
CARSON CITY, NEVADA – Today, Olive Union is announcing its latest smart hearable – Olive Pro – to combat the social and economic barriers to hearing aid use. The “2-in-1 hearing aids and truly wireless HiFi earbuds” look like conventional Bluetooth earbuds, but according to the company, they come equipped with artificial intelligence to isolate…
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Phonak Announces New Lyric4 Extended-Wear, Invisible Hearing Aid
STAFA, SWITZERLAND – Phonak, a leading global provider of hearing solutions, today announces the fourth generation of Phonak Lyric, the “world’s only 100% invisible hearing aid that can be worn 24/7 for months at a time”. The new Lyric4 features components that have been further improved to help guard against ear wax and other debris,…
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Oticon Celebrates 25th Anniversary of DigiFocus, the First Fully Digital Hearing Aid
SOMERSET, NEW JERSEY — This month, Oticon celebrates the 25th anniversary of a hearing aid that “heralded a fundamental change in how hearing care professionals, consumers and the media perceived hearing aids”. The introduction of Oticon DigiFocus, the first ear-level fully digital hearing aid, transported hearing aid discussion out of the realm of “your grandfather’s…
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Rexton Launches Motion Core Hearing Aid Platform; New Brand Identity
PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA – With the mission to deliver proven hearing technology in the most reliable way, hearing aid manufacturer Rexton today announced the availability of its Motion Core hearing aid platform. This new platform offers hearing care professionals a unique selection of hearing aid models to fit a more diverse group of patients who can…
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